Spooky Sussex at the Folk and Fable Festival

Last weekend, I was invited to do a talk about some of Sussex’s weird and wonderful folklore at the Battle … More

Listen: Apparition on aisle three

Spooky tidings this Samhain, fellow spirits. Do you want to hear some ghostly tales? Of course you do. I manifested … More

Happy Midsummer’s Day, and a merry Litha! Unearth some (mythical) old bones with me on BBC Radio Sussex as I … More

I was very inspired by this Polaroid of the haunted landscape behind M.R. James’ childhood Suffolk home, taken at dusk … More

I’m Emily, a writer and a picture-maker. My thing is the long nineteenth century and Neo-Victorianism in literature, art, and … More

I was lucky enough to review two texts on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spirituality for the British Association of Victorian … More

Adam Scovell’s Folk Horror is an excellent primer on the cultural mode, as manifested in fiction, film, music and television. … More

Narrative and nature go hand in hand. We’ve used stories to make sense of the world around us, to feel … More

The mayor of Chichester, cllr Martyn Bell, opened The Oxmarket Gallery’s new exhibition at a launch event last night. ‘Father … More